XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive R/W 3500/3000MB/s SSD

The 2tb product I just received is using the Silicon Motion SM2262ENG controller with Samsung TLC Nans Flash, and a Samsung DDR4 DRAM cache. No cutting corners on this one. Thank you for keeping it quality later on in the production cycle.

Easy install and fast speeds, so far so good

its a good nVME drive for a good price, I wanted to replace a Mushkin Pilot 1TB NVME as my OS drive. Good: - its fast, about as fast as youre going to get on PCI-E 3.0. - priced well. Bad: - far too many temp sensors (6 of them) with no obvious one being the one you should pay attention to. - the drive runs very hot. I originally had it under my GPU when I was cloning my Mushkin Pilot Windows install to it, and it was hitting low 80s on the hottest sensor. I figured it was being choked of air since it was under my GPU (previous HP EX950 had no issues, though) but I moved it to the top slot (between my CPU and GPU) when I was done cloning and the temps are really about the same, and I dont have bad case airflow. the value of it kind of dwindles when you factor in the price of adding a heatsink, but its also nearly twice as fast on writes as my Pilot so not too upset with it. Would have went with a second HP EX950 but it was OOS so I took a chance on this, not too upset other than the temperature woes.

I installed it on dell precision 5540. I didnt have the NVMe usb adaptor to clone it before installation so I directly installed it into the computer. After that, I placed my working old sata ssd drive into a SATA to usb external driver case and booted from external usb. After booted, use EASUS free version to clone external usb drive to internal new drive. Had one major issue: my new 5540 was not able detect the new NVMe drive. But after I updated the BIOS to the latest, it worked. Here are the reasons I chose this ADATA ssd: its consumes very little power in IDLE mode than other SSDs. The NVMe controller is from SMI (silicon motion, Taiwan), the flash memory is from Micron. So the components are decent. See more information from Tomshardware. My computer runs very quiet for most of time. In terms of disk performance, I tested coupled of times, sometimes I was not able to reach the advertised sequential Read number. But the random access is very good, which I care most for my usage model.

Purchased 2Tb size on June 20 2021 for ~230$ (prime day) and received ENG version (fast). Testing on laptop showed 1700Mb read and 3000 Mb write which was even lower than my laptop OEM 1Tb SSD (3000 read/write). Even cloned OEM ssd and inserted this adata ssd into main nvme/slot just to see if slot can be faster. Same speed, no difference. Also, when copy 25gb file to drive after ~10gb there is drop in speed from 1500 to 800 Mb which jumps back to 1500 in few seconds (cache was full). I knew about Adata shame replacement of components to cheaper but this one is ENG version and should be fast. Also got same drive from BestBuy (also ENG and got same speed). Unit shows 92 layers of TLC memory from Samsung by flash info app. Finally, found WD Black SN750 2Tb version on eBay and won 208$ auction for new sealed. Installed to laptop, tested and received 3000 read and write. In game mode (setting in WD Dashboard) WD sdd was showing even 3200 mb read which was close to 3450 Mb advertised. Also, copying same 25Gb file and even 5 of these files with over 180Gb size did not show any drops and was close to 1.7Gb most of the time. This is a shame for Adata to show 3500 read and 3000 Mb write on box as this is not true. It was like 1-2 years ago,, I believe but not with latest versions which you get from any store. Returning item. If you want drive with 2000 mb read but 3000 Mb write (if you process files, etc) then you can purchase Adata 8200Pro but do not expect 3500 read. At least, it was my experience with laptop and, maybe, using powerful desktop you can get higher speeds. Not for me and WD Black SN7500 2Tb was twice faster on read speeds and same write speed on my 1700$ laptop. Thank you

Lo compré hace más de un 2 años y no tengo ningún problema con este ssd, lo que si recomiendo es bajar el programa de xpg para descargar los drivers, ya luego pueden eliminarlo, pierde un poco de rendimiento de escritura sin los drivers.

Of course its good stuff, great manufacture and Amazon is good too.

2TB Model Works well when I upgraded my Mac Pro 2013 from its original 256GB SSD to a 2TB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe SSD. $7 adapter I used is a solid fit with this SSD. Multiple speed tests show consistent results. Had it in for almost 3 1/2 days and going strong. No sleep issues and completely stable - no crashing or restarts. Running the latest version of macOS Mojave. I strongly recommend this upgrade now that prices of NVMe SSD storage has dropped become more affordable. 1TB Model Installed the 1TB version in my Mac Pro Tower 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) as a Boot Drive running Mojave with a Radeon RX-580 Graphics Card. Some initial instability, but now appears to be rock solid once I reseated the PCIe adapter in the second (16x) slot. As with my previous OWC SATA 3 PCIe card, I had to put a small felt spacer between the adapter and the graphics card to provide enough clearance for the RX 580 fan to spin freely. Not as fast as this NVMe card could actually go, but still 3 times the read speed of the SATA 3 SSD I had in it and over 10x the write speed at ~1500MBps on both due to limitations of PCIe 2.0 4x interface - whereas a bridged adapter card would be required to max out this particular NVMe card speed of ~3000MBps on these Macs on the PCIe 2.0 16x lane slot.

I have the 500GB and the 1TB versions of this drive and have personally bench marked both of them and theyre screaming fast. The 500GB drive blows away the more expensive 500GB Samsung Evo 970 Plus in sustained write performance. The more expensive Samsung can only sustain around 800 MB/sec while this drive does 2100 MB/sec or almost 3 times faster! They both can briefly write at over 3000 MB/sec but thats using the cache on the drive. Once the cache fills up (around 20GB - 30GB) the 500GB Samsung falls to around 800 MB/sec. The 1TB versions of both drives are even faster. To put this in perspective lets say you had 100GB of videos to copy or move to this drive. The Samsung EVO 970 Plus would take over 2 minutes while the XPG SX 8200 Pro would take only 48 seconds. While ADATA (XPG) doesnt have the reputation of Samsung, Intel or Crucial, theyre using among the best controller (Silicon Motion SM 2262EN) and flash chips (Intel/Micron) available in these drives. I also suspect the firmware is mostly from Silicon Motion. Incidentally, the HP EX950 SSD uses the same controller, same flash, and has very similar performance but generally costs more than the SX8200 Pro. These drives also have similar endurance ratings to the more expensive Samsung 970 Evo Plus. Time will tell if the XPG drives prove to be as reliable as most Samsung models from the past have. But in terms of price, specs, warranty, reviews, benchmarks, endurance, etc, this drive matches or beats Samsung in just about every category.

Much ado has been made about ADATAs practice of swapping out the controller and not advertising it. Indeed, even on this Amazon listing, whether you get the one that can write at 3GB/s or--like I did--the one that writes at half that, is basically a crapshoot. However, they STILL offer the best PCIe 3.0 read speeds for the price, which for gaming is far more important than write speeds. I bought one of these about a year ago, with the old controller, which then mysteriously died recently. There arent too many reports of this--probably I just got a lemon. I monitored its temperature regularly, and it spent most of its time between 40 and 50 C, sometimes going over 60 when installing a game or some other multi-gigabyte write operation, which are generally short lived thanks to its speed. Still, one day, I randomly crashed in the middle of a game and...couldnt reboot. The BIOS warned of a faulty disk, but I couldnt believe it--I hadnt come anywhere near its TBW or the warranty period! Once I accepted that the BIOS was right, I started an RMA with ADATA and bought a replacement to tide me over in the meantime--who knows how long the RMA will take! Now, why didnt I get a different brand, knowing about ADATAs recent shadyness, you may ask? Well, like I said--the competition at this capacity is a good 20% more expensive, at least! Even more so for the Samsung 970 Evo/ Evo Plus! Also, the read speeds arent affected by the different controller, at least not enough for my gaming needs, so despite everything, it STILL wins. Now, is that still the case at todays prices? Im not so sure--~$100 for 1TiB is a great deal, but I think Id opt for 512GiB at todays prices, in which case the competition isnt too far out of reach. 20-30% translates to $10-20, instead of $30-40. $10-20 to not deal with ADATA? Maybe. $30-40? Eh, I guess they still make a good enough product. Plus, my experience with their RMA process hasnt given me any additional confidence. RMA processes are notoriously painful, but ADATAs website, at the time of writing, is basically non-functional for RMAs. I started multiple cases and got case numbers, but never got an e-mail about them, nor would they show up in their buried lookup tool. I eventually called their US number, at which some clueless dude thought that my e-mail alias for the RMA with adata in it constituted some sort of trademark infringement (it doesnt; thats not how that works!), but did actually send the paperwork over. Ill update if that goes poorly, but otherwise, you can assume that my drive was eventually replaced after some number of weeks, costing me just the price of shipping the dead drive to their US location. While the SX8200, crappy controller or otherwise, is still great bang-for-buck for gamers in my view, I consider ADATA to be on thin ice. Between the false advertising and the difficult-to-get-going RMA process, if this replacement drive also fails after a year, Id rather pony up the $40 just to deal with someone else. -1 star for the write perf lottery. -1 star for actively difficult RMA process. Know what youre buying, and expect an adversarial relationship with ADATA if anything goes wrong. UPDATE: Well, I guess I didnt imagine the possibility that USPS would lose the package. So, no opinion on ADATAs RMA per se--its a pain to get to, but what buggered me this time was...the mail. =/ I didnt buy insurance, either, but, uh, I recommend it, if you ever RMA. $13 seems worth not having to worry about this case. UPDATE 2022.02.21: So, the mail found my package about a month after I shipped it, and got it finally made it to ADATA, who promptly sent me a replacement unit that arrived safe and sound. So, at least on that end, the RMA process was smooth! I think at this point, my rating still stands--the RMA process on ADATAs end was a pain and the controller lottery unforgivable, but at least you wont necessarily be shopping elsewhere! Still, if I total up even what I might get if I resell my replacement drive, the amount for postage insurance if I had bought it, and so forth, the difference between the price of this drive and that of some of its competitors narrows sharply. I think I wouldve rather bought e.g .a Samsung and not had the pain. =/ Still, though my situation is unusual, you may still want to factor in the possibility of needing an RMA into your decision. I still think this is a fine drive for gaming, but its become clear where ADATA gets that low price of theirs.